JAMADA ALTHANI 20, 1440 AH MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2019 24 Pages Max 24º Min 11º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 17768 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net NOTICE Kuwait Times extends to our readers best wishes for the National and Liberation Days! The newspaper will not be published on February 26 and 27, 2019. Our next issue will hit the newsstands on Thursday, February 28, 2019. However, readers can stay updated on breaking news and events on our digital media channels including our website www.kuwaittimes.net and on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Amir hails Arab-Europe ties, warns of challenges EU, Arabs tackle raft of key issues at first summit KUWAIT: HH the Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al- Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah delivered yesterday his Amir exchanges speech to the first Arab League-European Union sum- mit in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. Speaking to the partici- congratulations pants, including Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al- Sisi and President of the European Council Donald Tusk, HH the Amir said: “I am pleased at the outset to on national days express my great happiness for this first historic meet- KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- ing between Arab and European states in this beautiful Jaber Al-Sabah received cables of congratulations city. I would also like to express my thanks and appre- on the 58th anniversary of the National Day and ciation to the brothers and friends, leaders of the Arab 28th anniversary of Liberation Day from HH the and European countries, for responding to the invita- Deputy Amir and Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al- tion of this meeting by participating in it, which reflects Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and National Assembly their keenness to develop Arab-European relations.” Speaker Marzouq Ali Al-Ghanem. He also received HH the Amir expressed gratitude towards Egypt for similar cables from HH the Chief of the National hosting the event, saying: “I must also thank my brother Guards Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Salem Al-Sabah, His Excellency President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, President Deputy Chief of the National Guards Sheikh of the Arab Republic of Egypt, for inviting us and for Meshaal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, HH Sheikh the warm welcome and generous hospitality extended Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah and HH to us. Our region has gone through various historical the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al- phases, in which the interaction of civilization and oth- Hamad Al-Sabah. ers was clear, as the effects of the Arab region are visi- They all expressed allegiance and loyalty to the ble on the structures of European civilization. Similarly, dear homeland, wishing HH the Amir life-long well- we see clearly the effects of European advancement being so he may pursue the leadership of goodness and European civilization on Arab intellectual, educa- Continued on Page 20 SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah heads Kuwait’s delegation at the tional and political institutions. EU-Arab summit yesterday. — KUNA Continued on Page 20 Bangladesh Biman flight BG147 were all res- Marshall Mofid, who goes by one name, said Bangladesh cued unharmed, officials said. he kept the accused man busy talking on the But the suspected hijacker - identified by phone while special forces units prepared the name “Mahadi” and described as being for the dramatic raid. “He demanded to plane hijacker 25 or 26 years old - was injured and died speak to our Prime Minister (Sheikh shortly after being arrested, said army Hasina),” Mofid said. “He claimed he had a shot dead spokesman Major General Motiur Rahman. pistol, but we are not sure yet whether it is “Our commando team asked the hijacker to an actual gun or a fake.” CHITTAGONG: Bangladesh commandos surrender, but he rejected it by being aggres- An unnamed member of the crew said the stormed a passenger jet in the country’s sive, and was shot,” Rahman told reporters. man was carrying a bomb-like object. “(He) southeast yesterday and shot dead an armed “Later on we learnt he had died... We found a said, ‘I’ll hijack this plane... If you don’t open man who allegedly tried to hijack the Dubai- pistol from him and nothing else.” the cockpit, I will blow up the plane,’” the bound flight, an army official said. The sus- The airport was sealed off by army, navy crew member told Bangladeshi newspaper pect, described by officials as a Bangladeshi and elite police after landing to collect more Prothom Alo. Other crew members said pas- man in his mid-20s, was shot as special passengers from Dhaka on its journey to sengers were evacuated through four emer- forces rushed the Boeing 737-800 plane Dubai. “Just ten minutes after the plane took gency gates of the plane. The hijacker also CHITTAGONG: Bangladeshi security personnel stand guard near a hijacked Dubai-bound after it landed safely in Chittagong. The 134 off (from Dhaka) he fired twice,” one pas- held a flight steward hostage. Bangladesh Biman plane on the tarmac after an emergency landing at Shah Amanat passengers and 14 crew aboard the senger told reporters in Chittagong. Air Vice Continued on Page 20 International Airport yesterday. — AFP A heavily pregnant Meghan, with News in brief Harry, Meghan henna on one hand, accepted flowers from one of the girls in Asni while she Sri Lanka seizes 300 kg heroin and Harry chatted outside to a group meet schoolgirls from the program Education For All COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s police seized nearly 300 Morocco. The organization runs free kg of heroin worth $17 million, the island’s biggest in Morocco tour boarding houses to give girls aged 12 to haul of the narcotic, and arrested two people, 18 from the High Atlas region access to spokesman Ruwan Gunasekera said yesterday. Anti- ASNI, Morocco: Britain’s Prince Harry education, working with 185 teenagers in narcotics agents and police Special Task Force and his wife Meghan yesterday met 2017. “Wow, that’s impressive!” Meghan commandos raided a mall car park in the capital Moroccan schoolgirls at the foothills of told a girl who has ambitions to study Colombo Saturday evening and found the drugs the High Atlas mountains, during their astronomy, an exchange filmed in a dorm hidden in two vans, Gunasekera said. “The heroin last official foreign tour before becom- room and posted on Twitter by was packed in 272 plastic bags and ready for distri- ing parents. Clutching British and Kensington Palace. bution,” Gunasekera said. “We are now investigating Moroccan flags, the teenagers lined up The couple also visited a classroom how this consignment got into the country.” — AFP to meet the royal couple during their where pupils were practicing their visit to the town of Asni south of the English, according to the royals’ social tourist hub Marrakesh. The British roy- media account. UAE oil firm signs $4bn deal als’ tour was set to focus on initiatives A quarter of Moroccans aged 15 to 24 promoting girls’ education, women’s are out of work and not in training or ASNI, Morocco: Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, greet ABU DHABI: State-owned UAE energy giant Abu empowerment and the inclusion of peo- education, according to official data for children from the ‘Education For All’ boarding house yesterday in this town on Dhabi National Oil Co yesterday signed a $4 billion ple with disabilities. Continued on Page 20 the foothills of the High Atlas mountains. -— AFP deal with US-based investors BlackRock and KKR granting them a minority stake in its pipeline arm. The agreement gives the two investors a joint stake of 40 percent in ADNOC Oil Pipeline, a newly established Thousands mourn 7 Syrian firm that owns all of the 18 pipelines that carry Abu Qatar names main road after Amir Dhabi crude oil and condensates, a statement said. ADNOC will keep the remaining 60 percent and also siblings killed in Canada fire have sovereignty over the pipelines and management MONTREAL: Around 2,000 mourners 2017, and were among an estimated 40,000 of operations, the company said. — AFP attended the funeral on Saturday of seven refugees received by the country since 2015. children from a Syrian refugee family who The funeral, broadcast on several news died earlier this week in a house fire in channels, was carried out according to Bid to sabotage Iran missiles foiled Halifax, eastern Canada. Ahmad Barho and Muslim tradition. Due to the number of peo- siblings Rola, Mohammed, Ola, Hala, Rana ple attending, it took place not in a mosque and Abdullah - whose ages ranged from four but in a cavernous hall on the Halifax water- TEHRAN: The Revolutionary Guards yesterday months to 15 years - all perished in the as-yet front, with all 2,000 seats full and several accused “enemies” of Iran of trying to sabotage the unexplained blaze at their home on Tuesday. mourners standing. country’s missiles so that they would “explode midair” Their father, Ebraheim Barho, suffered “We have all been affected by this but said the bid was foiled. “They tried as best as they DOHA: Qatari Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani meets HH Sheikh Nasser serious burns and remains in a medically tragedy,” said Nova Scotia lieutenant gover- could to sabotage a small part which we import so that Al-Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, Representative of HH the Amir of Kuwait induced coma in hospital, according to nor Arthur Leblanc. Member of Parliament our missiles would not reach their target and explode Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah yesterday.